How to move whatsApp images and videos to SD Card

Many of us want to move WhatsApp to SD Card or atleast the WhatsApp media because of the limited internal storage. WhatsApp is one of the famous cross-platform mobile messaging service used by millions of people around the world.Recently WhatsApp was acquired by the Facebook and they started providing some new features.Some of the new features of WhatsApp are you can understand when the receiver received and read your message by double and blue tick marks.Also, you can add multiple admins to Single WhatsApp group.But one of the major disadvantages of WhatsApp is that it can be only installed in Internal memory.Even the images, audio, video and other media, which you send and receive on WhatsApp, is stored in Internal memory.Due to this, your internal memory of your phone gets out of space soon.

In order to move the WhatsApp to your SD Card, your phone must be rooted.But rooting your Android phone voids the phone warranty.In this post, I will share how to move the WhatsApp Images and Videos to SD card on Android phones.By this method, only the media files, that is images and videos, will be moved to MicroSD card, not the entire App.

How to move WhatsApp images and videos to SD Card:

This is one of the simplest methods you can use to move the WhatsApp media to SDcard from internal memory.But you cannot set it as the default option to move media to external memory.This method will help you if your phone internal memory is very low to store WhatsApp images.Also, sometimes you get an alert saying device running out of space.To move the WhatsApp images and videos to SD card follow the below steps.

Step 1: Open ES File Explorer on your Android mobile or even some default File Manager on your phone. In case if you don’t have any File Manager, download  ES File Explorer from here.

Step 2: Open the internal storage files.In the internal or device storage, you will find a folder named WhatsApp.
Step 3: Under the WhatsApp folder, you will find a folder named Media. Now cut the Media folder.


Step 4: Now go to SD card and create a folder named WhatsApp and paste the media files into it.

That’s it! By this way, you could save some of your internal storage by moving WhatsApp media to SD card without any rooting.You can also try this method for Windows phone to move the media.By the similar way, you can move Facebook Android APP media to SD Card.If you have any doubts or queries on how to move whatsApp images and videos to SD Card please leave the comment below.  By this method, you can only store the downloaded Images and videos to the Micro SD Card. The images which you receive on Whatsapp cannot be directly downloaded and stored in SD Card by default. Also, note that once you cut and paste the WhatsApp media to SD card it cannot be accessed from memory card. You can access the media files only from the Filemanager or photo gallery.